denudation

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To say that any complete denudation of the writer occurs in the successful work is, according to me, a romantic exaggeration.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 22, 2001

Mencken's denudation of America's Sunday-go-to-meeting image was carried out with wit and a once admired prose style.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sometimes these irregularities have been produced by folds of the terrestrial crust, sometimes by faults, sometimes by the irregularities on the surface of an uplifted platform of deposition or of denudation.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various

The climate has been affected by the change; rain falls less frequently but with greater violence, and the process of denudation is accelerated.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" by Various

Scattered here and there over the chalk are small outlying remnants which remain to show that the two Tertiary areas were once continuous, before the agencies of denudation had removed them from the chalk.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various